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Personal Purchasing Wholesale Banned by Schricker Order. (Continued from Page One)

ored the requests of high State! officials for purchase orders for personal items. Have Emergency Blanks The officials would take these! State orders to a wholesale house, get what they wanted at wholesale] prices and pay cash for it. i The assistant purchasing agent estimated that the goods bought in| this manner “would ryn into several

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‘hundred dollars annually.” i Only a comparatively small pan! » of this “personal buying” has been! . done through the purchasing de- Mayor Names Committee to partment, however, it was learned.! . . All State departments who are, Supervise Program for served by the purchasing depart-| : : ment are supplied with emergency] Soldiers, Sailors. order blanks with which to bw needed items under $10 value With-! cpjef Justice H. Nathan Swaim of out going through the purchasing (he State Supreme Court has been department. named chairman of the committee Order Practice Stopped {to supervise recreation activities for . ___{soldiers, sailors and others in the The department heads would, in armeg forces. many cases, fill out a C. O. D. emer-; Mayor Reginald Sullivan also apgency order blank for some item Po 15 other members to serve vl aed {on the committee. such as an expensive fishing rod or] y 0 > ® = oe i Other members are H. Walden floor lamp for an employee. The zpgglesworth, City recreation deemployee would take this Order nartment; Parker Jordan, executive blank to a wholesale house, get what secretary of the Central Y. M. C. he wanted and pay cash for it, and a : Miss Elizabeth A. Blaisdell, prothat would end the matter. {gram co-ordinator of the Central The purchasing department would, 'y. Ww. C. A: the Rev. August R. because the article was paid for pyssenegger. assistant pastor of St. upon delivery, get no record what-| z\jarys Catholic Church: Adj. T. D. Soever ol the ransaction. = {Hamilton of the Salvation Army; Four State divisions, the Highway Allan Bloom of the Jewish ComCommission, Conservation Depart- munity Center Association: Mrs. men, Adjutant General ana the Eleanore J. Rhoton, executive secPrinting Board, do their own buying. | retary of the Indianapolis Travelers These agpartments, 100, Were nounied | Ajd Society; Capt. Francis Conder by the Governor that the “personal of the United States Army; Lieut. buying” must cease. Elmer Schubert of the Navy: Frank

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{tween President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill was reIspect for the integrity of all nations. Moreover, I believe in the American conception of international honor,” said the General.

The interviewer asked whether he believed the United States should break off relations with Vichy,

out delay. Immediately!” Was there any hope that Vichy might, despite all evidence to the contrary, still change color and resist Hitler's orders if Britain and her allies began to gain victories? “Not only is there no evidence, but the men of Vichy could not now turn back even if they wanted to,” said Gen, de Gaulle impassively,

French Watch U. S.

“What would be your answer if you were accused by Vichy of bartering French African ports for United States aid?” asked the interviewer. “My answer,” he said, “is that there is no more reason to believe that the United States should break its word of honor and keep the French bases beyond the term of the lease or the period needed as defense against Hitler, than there was to safeguard Brest and Bordeaux against the United States in the last war before accepting American help against the same enemy.” Asked what result he believed American severance of relations with Vichy would have upon the French, Gen. de Gaulle said: “In my opinion the effect would be very great.” “Does the American attitude toward Vichy then really mean so much to the average Frenchman?” asked the interviewer with a suggestion of irony which Gen. de Gaulle did not fail to catch. { “I am mot suggesting that the French public is looking toward {America for a cue to its political opinions,” he said. “But at least | the situation would then be clearly (defined. It would be seen that | America at last had taken an un{mistakable line against all those {helping Hitler. We know already

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Mumford of the American Legion; Vhat the average Frenchman's feelMrs. Grace Hawk, representing the 18S are towards Vichy. The sevOverseas Society: Mrs, |erance of relations would indicate Thomas D. Sheerin of the Mayor’s| © him that the American Governadvisory committee on recreation; ment felt the same way. Moreover, William H. Book, executive vyice|it Would demonstrate that Ameripresident of the Indianapolis Cham- {Can policy toward Vichy was conber of Commerce; Virgil Martin, | Sistent With its policy toward Berexecutive secretary of the Indian- |! apolis Community Fund and J. J. Sees Convoy Importance Kiser, local chairman of the USO. asked what Vichy's reaction would be if the United States broke relations with Vichy and accepted the use of West African ports, Gen.

more, they have inadequate facilities for their present needs. The same thing applies to Acora and Takoradi on the Gold Coast, and Lagos in Nigeria.” “Then you do not believe that the United States should attempt to take Dakar by force at any time, but rather, that the American fleet and air arm should establish bases within the Gulf of Guinea as a check upon the German advance into French West Africa?” Gen. de Gaulle smiled faintly. “You have grasped the reason for my offer to the United States,” he said gently. Asked whether in his opinion the Casablanca-Dakar railroad being built by Polish: miners and veterans of the International Brigade in Spain, shipped into French West Africa from French concentration camps, was what made Dakar dangerous to the United States, Gen. de Gaulle shook his head: “Not particularly. That is just a bluff. But Dakar was the strongest base in West Africa before that and it is even stronger now. The danger to the United States. provided it falls into Nazi hands, is not somewhere in the future but imminent, immediate. It is only the lack of material that keeps Hitler from using Dakar and that situation is dependent only on his being temporarily unable to spare aircraft from the Eastern Front.”

Petain Never Mentioned

At no time during our 45 minutes talk did Gen. de Gaulle flatly say that uniformed Nazis were already in French West Africa but he emphasized repeatedly that only substantially increased naval and air strength along the African curve could handle them if they chose to take over the established French air bases in the characteristic Nazi 24-hour style. Hin manner was that of a physician quietly advising precautions against a malady. During the course of the interview, Gen. de Gaulle mentioned Vichy Vice Premier Jean Darlan’s name only once and Marshal Henr! Philippe Petain not at all. The writer asked if he believed that if the United States Government decided to break with Vichy it should recognize Free France. “I believe that one step ought to lead, before long, to the other,” said Gen. de Gaulle. “If America both breaks with Vichy and recognizes your Government, our people will have gone further against Vichy than Britain herself.” suggested the interviewer. | “Britain has taken the first of these {steps. Should she not also take the {lead in the second? Why, in your |opinion, does not London finally

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possessions the islands of New Caledonia and the New Hebrides. They will play an important role in the coming struggle in Southeastern Asia,” he said. “Would Free France lend them to the United States as naval bases in case of need?” “Without any fuss whatever,” replied Gen. de Gaulle simply. Asked about the problem of their present protection, Gen. de Gaulle said: “If you consult a map, you will see that they lie near enough to the Australian coast so that Japan could not actually take possession of them without involving herself

with Australia. But we have taken our own steps against an aggressor. | We shut off the nickel and iron shipments from these islands to Japan at the same time when the Netherlands Indies did. That was a great sacrifice. considering our unprotected position.”

Avoid Shedding Blood

Touching upon the remaining parts of the empire divided between Gen. de Gaulle and Admiral Darlan, the interviewer remarked that American isolationists might demuy at taking steps against Dakar even in America’s interest because Franco-British forces had failed there. Non-interventionists might inquire why Free France has not vet ‘attempted to take either Somaliland or Madagascar from Vichy, thus making a clean sweep of the East African coast. “We wish to avoid shedding blood wherever possible,” replied Gen de Gaulle. “Each case of a different colony is different and demands different handling and timing. We believe that it may be possible to bring the Vichyist command of the Somaliland garrison to terms through a food blockade. Madagascar is not an immediate problem and we can take measures there whenever the British fleet, under whose orders we stand, considers such steps expedient.” “What about Martinique?” “If Dakar is essential to the United States, the safety of Martinique is equally so,” said Gen. de Gaulle. “The situation there is the same as nearly everywhere, namely, naval units are Vichyist in the officer ranks, but the entire population is sympathetic to us. If the United States Navy should receive an order to occupy Martinique I am reasonably sure that Admiral Robert (French Commissioner) would attempt to resist. But I believe that Admiral Robert would be reasonable enough to surrender without serious bloodshed when he felt that his obligation toward his Vichy

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the writer asked Gen. de Gaulle how he envisaged the future government of France, how he thought

the Free French Republic could curb the abuses that arose under former Premiers Edouard Daladier and Paul Reynaud. “I am not a politician,” said Gen. de Gaulle. “But I think that technical changes are necessary in the administration of French democracy, making it resemble closer the American brand. France needs a plan of administration in which liberty of speech and assembly are preserved but executive powers are extended over longer periods of

time. I mean something like the government to the elite. That elite American Constitution, in which Proved » be Tedioere Atareiew 5 n a final question, the interview= cabinet officers have the probabilty or asked Gen db Gaile whether of four-year tenure and the execu-

Syria had given him any solulion tive machinery thereby gains sta-|to the painful problém of giving ore bility.

ders to Frenchmen to fight against “What is your answer to critics :

Frenchmen. who say that the French people are

A quizzical look gathered upon broken forever, that they now are|Gen. de Gaulle's face. paying the price of long, ingrowing,| “The task itself is in that way an moral decadence?”

unhappy one,” he said. “But when “I answer,” said Gen. de Gaulle,|I assumed this work, I realized X without ilinching or showing re-

would have to fight Frenchmen. To= sentment, “that the French people day I expect to be obliged to fight have never become decadent. The

Frenchmen from here all the way people are healthy. Only they made (to the very gates of Paris. I am the mistake of surrendering their

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colony.” the Governor said. “and I believe that such an obscerva- ; tion will be an act of sympathy | and encouragement to a nation which preferred almost certain catastrophe to peace with dishonor.” The king,

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VICHY. Aug. 27 (U. P)—The| "Possibly, nothing very much nizing your Government?” French Parliament, which this week | Would happen. At least, not until vk . v constituted itself a formal opposi- | Germany was able to ease up in its Vichy Aids Both Sides ‘ton to the Vichy Government, to- struggle against Russia. Both the! Gen. 1 y it, day formally protested a Govern-| United States and Vichy would Sheet ! GEUle NiapO when thent order that Deputies and Sen-|ply coast along, more or less as at “England Is afraid. England is ators leave the capital. |present. But if you are asking afraid of the French fleet. What. The protest was signed byjabout strategic considerations, that in effect, England is carrying on is | edouard Herriot. president of thelis different. Examine any map|a wartime deal with Hitler i which | Chamber of Deputies. and Jules|showing the route and frequency of | Vichy serves as a go-between. Vichy Jeanneney, Senate president. {British convoys and you will find serves Hitler by keeping the French that the most traveled path is people in subjection and selling the around the bulge of Africa. | French Empire piecemeal to Ger“For the protection of these ship- | many. But do not forget that Vichy ping lanes, the Nazis cannot be al- | also serves England bv keeping the lowed to use Vichy's African soil French fleet from Hitler's hands. in combined airplane and submarine “Britain is exploiting Vichy in the attacks or Britain's Middle Eastern same way as Germany; the only lifeline would be severed. Britain difference is in purposes. What haphas Bathrust and Freetown, but|pens, in effect, is an exchange of they are so small that Dakar easily advantages between hostile powers dominates them. They are too! Which keeps the Vichy Government near and weak to serve as bases.” | alive as long as both Britain and “Do you think the United States Germany are agreed that it should Fleet could take Dakar?” exist. If Vichy should lend or lose “Not without a battle of consider- |its fleet to the Nazis, Britain would able dimensions,” replied Gen. de quickly bring the suspense about

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